Introduction: Mapping the contrasts and parallels between the conscious and unconscious mind

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003409526-1" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003409526-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Introduction: Mapping the contrasts and parallels between the conscious and unconscious mind

Original language description

Unconscious states, if they are presumed by a theory at all, lack the defining features of the conscious ones. Yet the more we learn about unconscious states and processes, the more intricate an image of this part of mind is revealed, often leading to surprising discoveries. In many domains, unconscious states turn out to be richer and more complex than previously thought, often coming indistinguishably close to their conscious counterparts. If that is so, implications for theories of consciousness are forthcoming. The more work on creating mental content is done unconsciously, the less is demanded of consciousness. Perhaps, then, we should not assume that consciousness is fulfilling all those tasks that were traditionally assigned to it. Instead of a maximal strategy that considers consciousness as a tool that creates, structures, and endows contents with various properties, one could explore less demanding roles for it. In its extreme form, consciousness could be regarded as playing one role only— that of making the already prepared and fully determined contents conscious.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-14445S" target="_blank" >GA20-14445S: Dual models of phenomenal consciousness</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Conscious and Unconscious Mentality: Examining their Nature, Similarities, and Differences

ISBN

978-1-03-252979-0

Number of pages of the result

7

Pages from-to

1-7

Number of pages of the book

332

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS chapter

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